Saturday 11.01.08: FORRO IN THE DARK / PILAR DIAZ / SALT PETAL @ echo

Forro in The Dark || Listen || Watch

Born out of NY’s eclectic East Village club, Nublu, Forro In The Dark is a group primarily made up of Brazilian ex-pats. Musically, the group follows the meaning of their name to a tee. Forro is a traditional dance performed in Northeast Brazil, a more sophisticated sister to the better known samba, bossa nova and the like. Another aspect of the band’s adherence to Forro is the use of traditional themes such as love, passion and the hardships of migrant workers. But by positioning themselves in NYCs thriving urban scene, they’ve taken their brand of Forro, literally, in the dark, captivating dance floors the world over. In a single set, they’ll often take audiences through all aspects of Forro and beyond, enabling a rowdy dance party and a slowed down contemplative respite. Since their inception, members of the band have attracted high profile collaborators such as Bebel Gilberto, David Byrne and others. With backgrounds in jazz, classical and hip-hop, this melting pot of knowledge and energy is truly captivating. – KEXP

with:
Pilar Diaz
Salt Petal

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 11.01.08: BOOTIE LA @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

From Paris, France, live video mashup set:
DJ LE CLOWN VIDEO CIRCUS

Resident Bootie mashup DJs:
ADRIAN & the MYSTERIOUS D
DJ PAUL V.

Post-Halloween Day Of The Dead Midnight Mashup Show:
HEATHER VESCENT

Spooky dance troupe number by:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

Direct from Paris, France it’s the DJ Le Clown Video Circus, a special all-video mashup set from one of the best video mashup producers in Europe. Plus, it’s Bootie’s Post-Halloween Midnight Mashup Show, starring Heather Vescent in her infamous “Hollaback Thriller Girl” performance. And renegade dance troupe R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) returns to the stage with a spooky “Ghostbusting” choreographed number!

Launched in 2003, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning artform of the bootleg mashup — and is now the biggest mashup event in the world, with monthly parties in six cities on two continents. Mixing and matching every conceivable musical genre, era, and style into one big dance party where everyone feels welcome, Bootie provides the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation.

Resident DJs Adrian, the Mysterious D, and Paul V. keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. And free mashup CDs will be given away like candy!

FREE Bootie CDs to the first 75 people through the door!

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

9pm / $5 before 10 pm, $10 after / 21+

Sunday 11.02.08: WHISPERTOWN 2000 / MICHAEL RUNION @ echo

Whispertown 2000 || Listen || Watch

The four-member band’s on-stage shenanigans and overall effect were upbeat (at one point, the ladies who do all the singing each took a stick and co-played the drums while the guys danced around with their guitars and bass up front) . Whatever you call it — indie rock, emo, or something else entirely — music in this genre sometimes lends itself to the melancholy side of things. What struck me most about this band was how much fun they were having on stage, and their infectious songs matched that showmanship.

Their album Livin’ in a Dream has been out for a year, and though I’ve only been listening it since Sunday, I’m already addicted. If you’re a Rilo Kiley fan you’ll definitely dig this: Their record was released on Rilo Kiley’s own label, Brute/Beaute. – Buzzsugar

with:
Michael Runion

6pm / $5 / All Ages

Sunday 11.02.08: PART TIME PUNKS with CRYSTAL STILTS / CAUSE CO-MOTION @ echo

with:
Crystal Stilts
Cause Co-Motion || Listen

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 11.03.08: THE SPINTO BAND / FRIGHTENED RABBIT / MINIATURE TIGERS @ echoplex

The Spinto Band || Listen || Watch (9:30pm set time)

With an obvious love of Brit pop, a weakness for ecstatic vocal harmonies and a stimulant-fueled disposition, the six young men twitched, leaped and hurled themselves through a thoroughly entertaining and nearly non-stop set. These boys have played together for a long time, and the practice showed last night in the tight starts and stops and seamless transitions between songs. The band even played a note-perfect instrumental cover of “Genius of Love” as an introduction to one of their originals.

But it was the energy and obvious sense of fun with which the Spinto Band attacked its songs that made the performance so engaging. Dueling frontmen Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes each brought his own unique and quirky personality to the stage. While the lanky Krill ran in place and flopped his hair back and forth, the cartoonish Hughes spasmed with the high notes and donned a clothes-hanger apparatus that allowed him to play his kazoo (yep) hands-free. This was another performance that was so strong and just plain fun that I’ll have to go back to check out the record again (2005’s Nice and Nicely Done was the band’s first widely distributed disc, but its seventh overall). – Westword

with:
Frightened Rabbit || Listen
Miniature Tigers || Listen

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Save Money when you order tickets by mobile phone
text Autumn to 467467

7:30pm / $13 adv, $15 dos / All Ages

Monday 11.03.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / MAJESTYS / WARPAINT / WHITE AND THE WRITING @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Majestys
Warpaint
White and The Writing

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 11.04.08: DIPLO / ABE VIGODA / TELEPATHE / BOY 8-BIT @ echoplex

Diplo || Watch

Diplo spun this summery track during his DJ set at the picnic, chopping up and dropping beats all over the A Tribe Called Quest jam that reworks organist Ronnie Foster’s 1972 “Mystic Brew”, and again making something new. The loping bass line is still there, while vocal snippets are cut off mid-word, looped, and doused in reverb, amid bursts of subwoofer-busting rhythms. The catch phrase “I like ‘em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian” is still here, too. Giving “Brew Barrymore” most of its lazy-afternoon wooziness, though, is Foster’s organ, rippling across the track now and then before the whole thing eventually settles into a thumping drum-machine break. “I always loved the organ solos on the Ronnie Foster track man,” Diplo writes. – Pitchfork

with:
Abe Vigoda
Telepathe
Boy 8-Bit

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Save Money when you order tickets by mobile phone
text Scrappy to 467467

8pm / $15 advance, $17 Day of show / all ages

Tuesday 11.04.08: IM RADIO & OBAMA PHONE BANK present ELECTION DAY PARTY @ echo

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE NOV 4!!!!

THEN Join everyone to watch the election unfold on…
3+ video projections throughout the venue of different election news sources

Live IM Radio broadcast from the party at the echo with up to the min analysis of what is happening with the election all night long, discussion panels, guest speakers, & analysis.

Live video broadcast from the event on our new internet TV channel

Free giveaways: buttons, teeshirts, stickers, CDs

The Los Angeles Obama Campaign Call Bank (Get Out The Vote) will be set up to make calls throughout the event, reminding people to vote. You can help them too if you want.

Live music performances by:
The Polyamorous Affair
Acoustic Music by 2 surprise artists

Sound & Performance art:
Poetry (election, change, hope, Obama… themed) facilitated by James Mavric; KillRadio.org
Live Artwork creation area from Echo Curio. Create your own art at the event.
Free design your own T-shirt table. Bring an old T-shirt; we provide the stencils & paint; and will help you to create your wearable art.
Community Artwork Display currated by Echo Curio

Community Information Fair w/ tables handing out info on other worthy causes

Full Bar all night long

Huge celebration, with balloons & more when IM Radio Calls the election for Obama.

8pm / FREE / 18+

Wednesday 11.05.08: DUB CLUB presents ERIC “MONTY” MORRIS backed by ALLENTONS @ echoplex

Eric “Monty” Morris
Backed by The Allentons

Eric “Monty” Morris is recognised in Jamaica, alongside Laurel Aitken and Derrick Morgan as one of the founding fathers of Ska. In 1961 he recorded a medley of nursery rhymes as “Humpty Dumpty” providing the vocals to Arkland Drumbago Parks All Star Band’s shuffling beat. The song proved a phenomenal success and is regarded as pivotal in the progress of Jamaican music, introducing the emphasis on the half beat in comparison to earlier local recordings which simply mirrored American R&B .
Morris recorded an abundance of hits throughout the first half of the 60s, most notably “What A Man Doeth”, “Sammy Dead”, “Money Can’t Buy Life”, “Into My Garden”, “Enna Bella” and “A Little More Oil In My Lamp”. . The singer also found success with Leslie Kong who released the favoured “Solomon A Gundy” alongside “Sampson Was The Strongest Man”, while sessions with Neremiah Reid resulted in “Words Of Wisdom”, “Supper In The Gutter” and “Words Of My Mouth”. In the latter half of the 60s several commentators considered that while Morris was an esteemed ska singer he would not adapt to the new sound of rocksteady. Adding the “Monty” tag to his name the singer, although not as prolific, proved the critics were mistaken with the sublime, “Say I’m Back” and the defiant “Last Laugh.”

plus Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $10 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Thursday 11.06.08: HAPPY HOLLOWS / STRANGE BOYS / THE SOFT HANDS / DIE ROCKERS DIE @ echo

The Happy Hollows || Listen || Watch

The Happy Hollows’ raucous and irreverent noisy-pop sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90’s college rock, Broadway show-tunes, garage punk, and 80’s pop. The band combines innovative song structures, surreal lyrics, and fiercely adept instrumentation to recreate reality into a jagged panorama of vibrant, kaleidoscopic collage. Listening to their music, one cannot help but see visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious. Among other things, the subjects of their tunes include labyrinths, counterfactual history, palindromes, the colors of the rainbow, time travel, mythical animals, and Tarot cards. On the group’s 2008 EP, Imaginary, Vocalist/guitarist Sarah Negahdari’s cherubic propensity for quizzical, playful lyrics and signature finger-tapping/finger picking guitar technique are readily apparent as the band quirkily straddles the fence between dissonant rock and art-pop. – Local Vertical

with:
The Strange Boys
The Soft Hands || Listen
Die Rockers Die || Listen

8pm / $5 / 18+

Thursday 11.06.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 11.07.08: XLR8R presents BRAINFEEDER NIGHT with FLYING LOTUS / GASLAMP KILLER / KUTMAH / RAS G / HUDSON MOHAWKE / KODE 9 / MARTYN / SAMIYAM

with:
Flying Lotus
Gaslamp Killer
Kutmah
Ras_G
Hudson Mohawke
Kode 9
Martyn
Samiyam

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8:30pm / $14adv; $16dos / 18+

Friday 11.07.08: Echo & Club Underground present APES & ANDROIDS / ATLANTIC LINE @ echo

Apes & Androids || Listen || Watch

A dance floor-ready cocktail of Queen’s bombast (complete with Freddie Mercury’s falsetto), 1980s Prince, Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie and Beck’s Midnight Vultures. On their debut album Blood Moon, A&A pump out sing-alongs like “Hot Kathy,” party starters like “We Don’t Understand You” and simmering burners like “Riverside.” “We tried to build the record into something that would be a journey when listening to the whole thing,” says A&A’s Brian Jacobs, who shares vocal and guitar duties with bandmate David Tobias.
The band’s live performances are becoming as well-known as the songs themselves, with cheerleaders, giant silver skulls, face paint and even a Korean drum circle all making appearances for a unique live experience.
- Rolling Stone

with:
Atlantic Line

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 11.08.08: THE DODOS / RESTAURANT / DREAMDATE @ echoplex

The Dodos || Listen || Watch

On Visiter, Dodos guitarist Meric Long alternates between fingerpicking and breakneck strumming while playing in confounding alternate tunings. Logan Kroeber’s clattering, locomotive percussion (which includes shoes outfitted with tambourines) is every bit a lead instrument as Long’s guitar, and a big reason the band’s music has garnered comparisons to the less abstract moments of Animal Collective and the output of other new-primitivist bands like High Places and Yeasayer.

The first quarter of Visiter marries those impulses with fantastic results. The banjo playing and female harmonies on opener “Walking” echo Michigan-era Sufjan, but the connection ends at Long’s stridently confident vocal delivery. That song immediately segues into the maniacal “Red & Purple”, a bewilderingly worded love song accompanied by a toy piano and fuzzy bass. And after the brief “Eyelids” comes “Fools”, which has been bouncing around the web in some form for months, and is fast becoming the Dodos’ signature tune– although it may soon be eclipsed by the rollicking, Feelies-esque “Jodi”. – Pitchfork

with:
Restaurant
Dreamdate || Listen

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Save Money when you order tickets by mobile phone
text Happy to 467467

8pm / $13 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Saturday 11.08.08: DESCARGA @ echo

¡Descarga! is a monthly Afro-Latin music gathering for the people. This event is an alternative to the commercial salsa nights that have dominated the LA scene for years. Resident DJs Sloe Poke, Mando, Bobby Soul, Loslito, and Mexican Dubwiser spin classic salsa and cumbia; plus merengue, punta and reggaeton. With live bands gracing the stage at midnight at nearly every show, it has become the taste-making New York to L.A. soiree, running over 5 years strong.

FMI:
www.descargaclub.com
Descarga on Myspace

9pm / $10 / 21+

Sunday 11.09.08: ONYX REUNION @ echo

ONYX Reunion

6pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 11.09.08: PART TIME PUNKS with LE FACE + SHARK TOYS @ echo

with:
Le Face
Shark Toys

Exile in marineville, the sounds and general racket of these two bands: Tronics heads, Swell Maps sods, Zoundz motherfuckerz, all, come soak in the DIY soundz out of their bedrooms & into yer brainpan.

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 11.10.08: VIC CHESNUTT / ELF POWER @ ECHOPLEX

Vic Chesnutt || Listen || Watch || MP3

All right, this is getting repetetive. With each new Vic Chesnutt album I find myself reduced to a puddle of effusive praise, to the point where I fear losing credibility. I mean, I gave 2005’s Ghetto Bells a 9, I just loved it. Where do I go from there and still leave the proverbial “one to grow on”? Particularly when the venerated songwriter drops an album like North Star Deserter from seemingly out of nowhere and it’s one of the richest and most satisfying of his storied career. How can I impress this upon you, dear reader, who should by rights just expect I’m going to unquestioningly adore everything Chesnutt commits to wax? Should it be, “No, this time I really really mean it?” Should I concoct a pseudonym? Probably too late for that; next time perhaps. If you’re already a devotee, you understand the predicament, the natural excitement that comes with a new Vic Chesnutt record. There’s allways more grace, more wit, more dirty humor, more idiosyncrasy and nuance. But trust me when I write that North Star Deserter, even more than its immediate predecessor, restores something to Chesnutt’s work that you’d never have known was missing. – Pop Matters

with:
Elf Power || Listen

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8:30 pm / $12 advance, $14 Day of show / all ages

Monday 11.10.08: THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW / THE DUTCHESS AND THE DUKE / THE FLASH EXPRESS @ echo

The King Khan & BBQ Show || Listen || Watch

The King Khan & BBQ Show is the most revered band in their scene, and there are many reasons why. It all started in 2003, BBQ visiting King Khan, and jamming out their black magick in his Nazi-bunker rehearsal space. Songs flowed endlessly like blood from a cancerous abcess. They took it easy, honing their craft, playing sporadically to crowds outraged by their incredible sound and nasty live show. Orgiastic, anarchic, hypnotic and personal are the shows to this day. Blow-jobs and blood, pick-ups and puke, dancing and laughing. Two guys. Mark Sultan (BBQ), smashing snare, bass drum and tambourine with his bare feet, molesting his guitar and singing like a possessed angel. He is often cited as having one of the finest voices (think Sam Cooke) and greatest songcraft in the world. The other, King Khan, is nearing legendary status for his advanced nuttiness and unpredictability, as well as top-notch showmanship and musicianship. He spins and howls like a freak while belting it out on his guitar like a masher. What does it all sound like? It sounds like five men. Really. And it is very difficult to peg the sound. It really is a cross-section of amazing bands, places and energies. This is soul. This is punk. This is psychedelic. And who do you think started this whole sock-hop/doo-wop revival? Sultan and Khan. This is the Death Cult. This is ROCK’N’ROLL.

with:
The Dutchess & The Duke
The Flash Express || Listen

8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / 18+

Tuesday 11.11.08: Indie 103.1 & Echo present – CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with EARLIMART / AFTERNOONS / RED CORTEZ / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Earlimart || Listen

The kind of emotion-drenched indie-pop that fills “Hymn and Her” is nothing new for Earlimart — the group delivered a fine album of confessional lyrics and inventive, engaging music last year with “Mentor Tormentor,” a major step in its steady rise toward the top tier of L.A. bands.

Releasing another full-length effort less than a year later is unusual, but the accelerated pace might account for the infusion of freshness that makes “Hymn and Her” so arresting.

The music crackles and trembles with a restless bravado that might have been muted with more time and deliberation, and in the process Earlimart brings its intimate conversations out of the confession booth and into the cathedral itself, where they expand to fill the vast space.

The group, now down to the duo of Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray, returns to its trusted tools — rich melody, a tone of taut urgency, clapping percussion, a strong sense of atmosphere and space, weird little things squirming in the far corners — but on this sixth album everything seems enhanced, raised to a new level. – LA Times

with:
Afternoons
Red Cortez (formerly The Weather Underground)
Dazzler (formerly Totally Radd)

8pm / FREE before 10:30pm, $5 after / 18+

Tuesday 11.11.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents BISHOP ALLEN / AN HORSE / ELECTRIC OWLS / THE ONE AM RADIO @ echo

Bishop Allen || Watch || MP3

Like fellow indie tunesmiths Stephin Merritt and Sufjan Stevens, Bishop Allen’s Justin Rice and Christian Rudder get inspired by forcing themselves to be prolific. Last year the Harvard-bred duo put aside its belated follow-up to 2003′s self-released Charm School and set about recording a different EP each month. Bishop Allen ended up with four albums worth of new material, and The Broken String is a greatest hits sampler of sorts, with nine reworked tracks from the EPs plus a handful of new songs. And it really is great, striding confidently from one high point to the next, with expansive yet homemade-sounding folk-rock songs like “Click, Click, Click, Click” and “Corazon” oozing scruffily charming earnestness. Sometimes quality and quantity can coexist nicely. – The Onion AV Club

with:
An Horse || Listen
Electric Owls
The One AM Radio || Listen

8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 Day Of Show / 18+

Wednesday 11.12.08: DUNGEN / WOMEN / LIFE ON EARTH @ echo

Dungen || Listen || Watch

It kinda goes without saying that we’re going to at least listen to any band that has made an 18 minute song at any point in their career that, translated into English, is called “Midsummer Bong.” MIDSUMMER BONG! Lucky for everyone involved, the band that did that is Dungen, and they are awesome. So awesome in fact, that we put Gustav Ejstes, the main man behind Dungen, on the cover of F27 and then proceeded to never get tired of their music ever. On their MySpace they’re streaming “Satt Att Se,” from their upcoming album 4, which Ejstes will be previewing in New York next week in an acoustic session that you’ll able to catch on FADER TV shortly thereafter. – Fader

with:
Women
Life On Earth

8:30pm / $12 advance, $14 day of show / 18+

Wednesday 11.12.08: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 11.13.08: BOOK SOUP & 826LA presents JOHN HODGMAN & JONATHAN COULTON – “More Information Than You Require” @ Echoplex

COMPLIMENTARY BOOK WITH TICKET PURCHASE. The bestselling author of The Areas of My Expertise– also known as The Daily Show’s “Resident Expert” and the PC in the iconic Mac ads– picks up exactly where his first book left off. Exactly: Because The Areas of My Expertise ends on page 236, More Information Than You Require begins on page 237.

7:30pm / $27 / all ages

Thursday 11.13.08: AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD @ echo

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead || Listen || Watch

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead is putting the finishing touches on its sixth album in New York with producer Chris Coady. The as-yet-untitled set is due in January via the band’s own Richter Scale label through the Universal-distributed Justice Records. An EP, “Festival Time,” will precede the album in October. In addition to the title track, it will feature an unconventional cover of the Replacements’ “Within Your Reach” as well as the instrumental “The Betrayal of Roger Caseman and the Irish Brigade” and the dark, riffy “Bells of Creation,” which will appear on the album in a different form… The material previewed for Billboard is indeed more hard-hitting than on the past two Interscope albums, with “Inland Sea” building from a measured, midtempo rocker to a furious instrumental finish and the snappy “Fields of Coal” conjuring an inspirational chorus that Reece says reminds him of the Summer Olypmics. Another untitled track is fast and punky, with an Unwound-style feedback barrage. – Billboard

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Thursday 11.13.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 11.14.08: DEERHOOF / EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL / KIT @ echoplex

Deerhoof || Listen || Watch || MP3

Fourteen years into a band as diverse and uncompromising as Deerhoof, with albums that skittered from twee electronics and J-pop to sizzling explosions of art-noise, you might expect that the quartet would have comprehensively explored every possible avenue of artistic innovation. Offend Maggie evidences a band that hasn’t settled down, because they don’t have to. Featuring new second guitarist Ed Rodriguez, it’s ironically a stripped-down effort (drummer Greg Saunier plays live with just a kick drum, snare and crash cymbal). Offend Maggie adds jazz-inspired, unpredictable structures to Deerhoof’s raw, off-the-cuff approach. It may be stripped down, but the result is daring, otherworldly and an exhaustive clinic on creating transcendent moments with a pair of guitars. – CMJ

with:
Experimental Dental School || Listen
Kit

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8:30pm / $15 / All Ages

Friday 11.14.08: Echo & Club Underground present THE LITTLE ONES / WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS @ echo

The Little Ones || Listen

You know that TV footage of baby birds eating chewed-up worms from their mothers’ mouths? Or doe-eyed seals skidding across the Antarctic ice? ‘Morning Tide’ is so fabulously cute it’s like viewing all of the above through a fog of candy floss.

There’s little deviation from the pop blueprint laid out so scrumptiously on their first outing, and – as deeply in thrall to melody as they obviously are – you imagine The Little Ones would struggle to write a song that didn’t sound akin to the sun sparking. Not that this matters one jot; from the title tune, to previous single ‘Ordinary Song’, to album highlight ‘All Your Modern Boxes’, the band forage through every trick ever deployed in the history of indie-pop to incite smiling. There’s Lemonheads-indebted handclaps throughout; the reverb-drenched jangle of Teenage Fanclub; even wry, wordy Guided By Voices-style outbursts, courtesy of singer and songwriter Ed Reyes. ‘Morning Tide’ is a collection of songs that take the word ‘pop’ in ‘pop music’ literally, bursting with effervescence and joy. – NME

with:
What Made Milwaukee Famous || Listen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 11.15.08: Echo, Hang The Djs & Part Time Punks present ADULT. / POP NOIR @ echoplex

Adult. || Listen || Watch

Briefly a synth bass-anchored trio, Adult. is now again Detroit-based husband-and-wife Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus on their fourth album. And Adult. is your favorite Anglo-anarcho punk band since Rudimentary Peni. Don’t believe? Why Bother? will force your hesitant hand to admit it. Like snorting Paxil-laced Adderall off a Fad Gadget lithograph, Adult. is cathartic cabaret for the sketched out. Opening with “Red Herring”—the near-silent wink before the wince—Why Bother? soon descends into the digital DT’s of “Good Deeds” and “I Feel Worse When I’m With You,” featuring enough gabber for a 10-day tweakend. As it unfurls, the base of tracks such as “You Don’t Worry Enough” reveal a return to the group’s more silicon compositions, but incorporate singer Nicola Kuperus’ Siouxsie Sioux-isms plus poltergeists of atonal axe-work. The gnarled vignettes aim to alienate, which only further endears core fans, whether electro heads, electroclash survivors or no-wave fetishists. Something has contaminated the culture, and Adult.’s once hyper-sterile world is the better for it. – URB

with:
Pop Noir

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Bvld
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $12 /18+

Sunday 11.16.08: PART TIME PUNKS FESTIVAL @ echo & echoplex

With:
A Certain Ratio
Pylon
Love is All
Medium Medium
Savage Republic
The Nightingales
Nervous Gender
Vivian Girls
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Warpaint
NoDzz
The Urinals
Wild Stares
The Muslims
Magic Bullets
Grimble Grumble
Softboiled Eggies
Mika Miko

Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues, The Echo & The Echoplex, in Echo Park, Sunday November 16, 2008 from 2pm – 2am.

Most excitingly, the Part Time Punks Festival will mark the first appearance of A CERTAIN RATIO in the United States since 1985! At the time, often dismissed as Joy Division clones (also on Factory Records), the band has since been recognized in the highest echelon of Post-Punk innovation, alongside Public Image Limited, Gang Of Four and The Slits for fusing Punk with dance rhythms – much of this credit probably due to the reissuing of the band’s back catalogue by Soul Jazz.

The Festival will also mark the first West Coast appearance of Pylon since they reformed last year to promote DFA’s releasing of their back catalogue (the label will be re-issuing Pylon’s second album, “Chomp” in time for the Festival).

PLUS. . . GUEST DJs: David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Dave Newton (Mighty Lemon Drops), Brendan Mullen (“the guy who ran The Masque”) Chuck Warner (Messthetics/Hyped 2 Death) & Dan Selzer (Acute Records) & Kevin Pedersen (What’s Your Rupture?)

PLUS. . .the first-ever band-sanctioned public screening by Throbbing Gristle (videos, live performance & never-before-seen material) AND screenings of rare & unseen Post-Punk videos, films & live performances by Joy Division, New Order, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Suburban Lawns, The Films Of Bruce Licher & Savage Republic AND the DVD-release-premiere of Decoder (featuring Genesis P-Orridge, William S. Burroughs, Christiane F and members of Psychic TV, Soft Cell, Talk Talk and Einsturzende Neubauten).

Enter @ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

ECHO SCHEDULE:
2:30pm – Soft Boiled Eggies
3:15pm – Warpaint
4:05pm – Grimble Grumble
5:00pm – Mika Miko
6:0pm – The Wild Stares
7:00pm – Nervous Gender
8:00pm – Muslims
9:00pm – Savage Republic
10:10pm – Ariel Pink
11:15pm – The Nightingales

ECHOPLEX SCHEDULE:
2:50pm – Magic Bullets
3:50pm – Nodzz
5pm – The Urinals
6pm – Vivian Girls
7:10pm – Medium Medium
8:30pm – Love Is All
9;30pm – Pylon
10:30pm – A Certain Ratio
Schedule is subject to change

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

2pm / $25 day of show / 18+

Monday 11.17.08: EL GRAN SILENCIO / ONECHOT / SR MENDEZ / MEXICAN DUBWISER @ echoplex

El Gran Silencio || Watch

with:
OneChot (papashanty soundsystem)
Sr Mendez (latin grammy winner producer of calle13)
Mexican Dubwiser

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $13adv; $15dos / 18+

Monday 11.17.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / GODS GANG / THE JUDY EXPERIENCE @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Gods Gang
The Judy Experience

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 11.18.08: Indie 103.1 & The Echo present – CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with EVEREST / THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE / NICO STAI / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Everest || Listen || Watch

Ghost Notes is the perfect moniker for this album, Everest’s first. The group may be new, but the members have been kicking around the L.A. indie scene forever, finally coming together in this amalgamation to resurrect the sounds of the past. Recorded mostly live in the studio entirely on analog tape, the entire set has an early-’70s feel, as well as a glow to the sound that reflects Mike Terry’s expert engineering and production. The album divides rather nicely into two halves, just like a vinyl set, with the first half a bit brighter with pop undertones, the second more shadowed and pushing into jam and prog rock territory. “Trees” is buffeted by a breeze blowing out of the South, “Into Your Soft Heart” is tinged with British Invasion R&B and a whip of Who-esque power chords, a styling taken to its logical upbeat conclusion on the wildly infectious “Reloader.” In contrast are downtempo numbers like “Rebels in the Roses” and “Black Covers,” the former folk-tinged, the latter lusher in sound. Each one has its own many distinctive charms, but it’s the gorgeous, introspective “Only in Your Mind” that is the centerpiece of this half of the set. If you distilled Dark Side of the Moon, Pet Sounds, and Revolver into a glass and poured it over the California surf, it would probably sound like this. The glories of “Mind” are equalled by the exquisite aural tapestry of “I See It in Your Eyes,” a head-nodder of a number whose rich acoustic guitar is underlit by the tidal waves of organ, while the electric guitar eventually wades right into the surf. However, its jammy feel and proggy aura are counter-pointed by passages clearly inspired by Neil Young. Meanwhile, “Standing By” begins like an acoustic ballad but builds into an amazing spacy extravaganza. “Angry Storm” is gently rocked with yearning, and the coursing “Stumble Waltz” never puts a foot or note wrong, with the album closing with the powerful acoustic ballad “Taking on the Future.” The music throughout is sublime, the sound extraordinary, the arrangements inspired, and Russell Pollard’s lyrics capture the style of the past while feeling as fresh as today. Classic sounds make for a classic album, which is precisely what Ghost Notes is. – Billboard

with:
The Henry Clay People || Listen
Nico Stai
Dazzler (formerly Totally Radd)

@ echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for 18+ / 18+

Tuesday 11.18.08: WAIT.THINK.FAST / FOL CHEN / THE HECTORS / DJ PAJARO @ echo

Wait.Think.Fast.

An indie darkland of whirlpooled, noise-spiked atmospherics cut through by the lipcurled and smoke-hewn sensuousness of Jacqueline Santillan’s bilingual vocals and the sinewy crunch of wiry, Wire-y guitar lines, Wait.Think.Fast.’s Vuelve al Mar is nearly as complete a vision as any EP is allowed to be—in its thirty minutes the record swirls from the lean sinew of chiming postpunk (“Clear Our Name”) to ambient trickles of silvery, synthy beauty (“Cien Fuegos”), with each track in between bearing the band’s uniquely noirish stamp of gently apocalyptic (figure that one out) beauty. Sure, they echo a bit of the Bunnymen (Johnny Marr, too, but then that kills the pun), but that’s it—just echoes. The rest belongs to the band, and to those lucky enough to listen. – Web In Front

with:
Fol Chen
The Hectors || Listen
DJ Pajaro

8:30pm / FREE / 18+

Wednesday 11.19.08: NIGHT HORSE / TRIGGER RENEGADE / THE HIGH SAINTS @ echo

Night Horse || Listen

Ripping pages from the books of Led Zeppelin, The Doors and Black Sabbath, Night Horse plots an unstoppable course straight to the heart of classic rock in the six majestic tracks that comprise the band’s Tee Pee Records debut, The Dark Won’t Hide You. Unlike so many other bands that go out of their way to sing the praises of the aforementioned groups while still remaining sonically entrenched in the pop idiom (The Parlor Mob and Keane leap to mind), Night Horse puts its’ money when its’ mouth is as guitarists Justin Muranga and Greg Buensuceso ignore fashionable brevity; none of these six tracks falls below the four-and-a-half-minute mark, and most have hard stops included to indicate movements or progressions. Instead, they favor constructing statuesque riffs and then jamming around them to color and create expansive landscapes with said riff as the focal point. For his part, Velde also invokes the ghosts of every classic rock singer you’ve ever loved by flat-out refusing to hold anything back; in songs like “Wicked Love,” “Worried Life Blues” and the title track, the singer teeters on the edge of total abandon while the band cajoles and pushes him closer to the brink. His performances are that much better for it too; the closer he gets, the more overwhelming his voice becomes until by “Shine On Me” he’s virtually yowling his demons out on tape and pulling listeners into lifelong fandom in the process. – Ground Control

with:
Trigger Renegade || Listen
The High Saints || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 11.19.08: DUB CLUB presents SHINEHEAD @ echoplex

Shinehead

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

SUGAR MINOTT CANCELLED – REFUNDS AVAILABLE AT POINT OF PURCHASE

9pm / $10 / 21+

Thursday 11.20.08: EL GUINCHO / GLASSER / ORO11 @ echo

El Guincho

Spanish artist El Guincho (real name: Pablo Díaz-Reixa) makes music from Spanish chanting, thudding tribal rhythms, ghostly harmonies, and the bits and pieces of a thousand as-yet-unwritten pop songs. It’s a combination that won’t be appearing in any pop how-to guides any time soon. The impressive and probably unwittingly fashionable source material– Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália, and early rock’n'roll– and the irresistibility of these songs can only briefly obscure the fact that no one else is really making music quite like this.

Alegranza! has already been compared extensively to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, and the two records do share a hazy, sampladelic love-in feel (hypnotic, interlocking sample loops; delirious, auto-harmonizing pop song choruses). I’m more strongly reminded of Animal Collective’s Strawberry Jam, even though this record sounds very different: Both it and Alegranza! are spikier, less pristine, and less invested in images of the past. There’s no sacred totem in Alegranza! to play the role that the Beach Boys do for Person Pitch– opener “Palmitos Park” may sound a bit like Richie Valens, but otherwise El Guincho’s songcraft resemblances are at once so broad and so diffuse that they feel osmotic rather than deliberate: Confused chants coalesce into brain-teasingly familiar vocal hooks, while quicksilver flashes of guitar trace echoes of melodies you feel you must already know like the back of your hand. – Pitchfork

with:
Glasser
Oro11

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Thursday 11.20.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 11.21.08: Echo, Dub Lab, KCRW, (((folkYeah))) and Wax Poetics present RODRIGUEZ with CONNIE PRICE AND THE KEYSTONES / SLEEPY SUN @ echo

Rodriguez || Listen

with

Connie Price & The Keystones || Listen

For a record that’s almost 40 years old, Cold Fact sounds astoundingly fresh and relevant, as if it has been preserved in a time capsule all this time. The lyrical content of songs like “Inner City Blues” and “Hate Street Dialogue” is sharp, witty, and biting. Rodriguez has a commanding voice that is at once wise and completely unpretentious. And of course the musical accompaniment, all of which was recorded and added after Rodriguez contributed his parts, enhances the psychedelic mood and vibrations. Rodriguez is currently back on tour, supporting an album that he recorded decades ago. Some rock-n-roll relics might find playing their classic numbers a bore, but Rodriguez is playing his like no one’s ever heard them before. – Popmatters

plus:
Sleepy Sun || Listen

8pm / $12 / 18+

Friday 11.21.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND @ echo

with resident DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Friday 11.22.08: UNDERGROUND DANCE MASTERS @ echoplex

After starting filming in 1992, This has now been a 16 year ordeal in producing this film that shows a previously unknown part of American pop history. The film is called “Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era”. The film takes the viewer on a journey of discovery of the origin, evolution, history and the creators of the Urban Dance forms of Boogaloo, Locking, Popping, Zigzag, Robot, Rocking and B’boying. The film is based on the Guzman-Sanchez Study™ that began in 1983, it uncovers not only the dance forms but the lives of these Black, Latino and White dance artists that have influenced the world to current day. The Guzman-Sanchez Study™ has for the first time validated what was an oral history and is destroying the web-mythology and verbal mythology that exists in the world today.

Following the screening will be a special live performance by T-Bopper of Rhythm Tribe and members of the United Street Force featuring OG dance masters Chain Reaction, One Plus One, and more.

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI: http://www.dancemaster.com/

8pm / $15 / all ages

Sunday 11.23.08: PART TIME PUNKS – CURE TRIBUTE NITE with HECUBA / GANGI @ echo

With:
Hecuba || Listen
Gangi

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 11.24.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / CROOKED COWBOY / EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS / FAWNHAWK @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Crooked Cowboy
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Fawnhawk

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 11.25.08: Echo & Indie 103.1 present CHECK ONE TWOSDAYS with ROSEBUDS / JONAH RAY / LEMON SUN / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Rosebuds || Listen || MP3

Indie rock duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, a.k.a. the Rosebuds, may be happily married, but unlike the relentlessly chipper couple-in-arms Mates of State, even their brightest records have a sonically sinister side. Case in point: the pair’s fourth full-length, Life Like, which refines the alt-country sound expressed on 2005′s Birds Make Good Neighbors while further exploring the synth-processed wastelands laid out on last year’s Night of the Furies. Featuring guest appearances by Portastatic’s Matthew McCaughan and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Life Like explores the dark side of adulthood without sacrificing the Rosebuds’ hauntingly gorgeous melodic sense. - Spin.com

with:
Jonah Ray
Lemon Sun || Listen
Dazzler

8pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 11.26.08: Performer Mag & Isgoodmusic.com present THE FLYING TOURBILLON ORCHESTRA / I MAKE THIS SOUND / OBI BEST / PRINCETON @ echo

The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra || Watch

A languorous desert landscape of fractured pop punctuated with the rumbling crackle of spinning art-rock, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra’s new EP, Escapements, swings from dream-lathered reveries of hazy beauty to propulsive, churning nightscapes—songs that sound as if they are the heat-twisted, shimmering and sky-fallen debris after Lee Hazlewood and Scott Walker led a kamikaze nosedive into the 4AD records building.

As a teaser for the EP’s July 3rd release, Web in Front is offering a stream of two tracks after the jump: the sleepfever swirl of “In a Dream”’s hypnotic sway and nightmare visions as well as the shapeshifted, epic buildup of “Audry (love keeps moving)”’s schizoid dynamics. You can pick the EP up at the Orchestra’s Escapements release party concert at the Echo on July 3rd (also featuring the Stevenson Branch Davidians and Fol Chen. – Web In Front

with:
I Make This Sound || Listen
Obi Best
Princeton || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Wednesday 11.26.08: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 11.27.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

with:
DJ BAILEY || MP3
Metalheadz,Intasound,Radio1/BBC .UK

Bailey’s passion first and foremost lies in being the best Selecta possible. He lives the life of a 100% DJ with a record collection that goes from early electro on up to the latest release lining his bedroom walls. Always having been a DJ rather than a producer, Bailey is one of a select few that managed to climb to the very top of the dnb ladder without the help of production credits. Bailey is a Metalheadz resident DJ of over 10 years, an award winning radio host (1Xtra BBC), a label owner (Intasound), A&R assistant for Goldie’s new label (Rufige) and is increasing a high profile as a producer with releases under his belt on Full Cycle, Metalheadz and soon for A Guy Called Gerald’s new imprint called Protechshon.

plus:
FRISK-E :Renegade Hardware .UK
NOFACE :Respect
MC Questionmark + MC XYZ

9pm / $10 / 21+

Friday 11.28.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND @ echo

with resident DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Saturday 11.29.08: ANALOG – 80s Electro Dance Club @ Echo

Just in time for the Holidays, ANALOG makes it’s long awaited return the Saturday night after Thanksgiving. This time we bring the party to Echo Park, with a full blown, off the hook event at The Echo. As before, Analog brings you a complete night of totally electronic music…

Bruce Perdew & Mike Fix (from Blue Mondays) spin a mix of Electro, Industrial, Electronic Eighties, Old School Trance & Techno, and more. Our last party was crazy, and sold out, so for sure this one will too. It’s free before 11pm, and only five bucks after with a pass.

FMI: http://evilclubempire.com

9pm / FREE with pass before 11pm, $5 with pass after / 18+

Saturday 11.29.08: HIT + RUN ANNIVERSARY PARTY @ echoplex

On Saturday, November 29th we celebrate our three-year anniversary with “REPEAT OFFENDER” at The Echoplex in Echo Park. Admission is FREE to everyone wearing a HIT+RUN t-shirt, and you get a FREE blank shirt at the door to customize that night! Choose from exclusive designs by KOFIE, AMBUSCH, RESTITUTION PRESS, ABCNT, KUTMAH, KIME BUZZELLI, MIKE C, ANNIE MADISON, HAYCOCK, MAGO, ELI SIPSAS and H+R CREW.

Djs:
KUTMAH
HAYCOCK
ABCNT
SIR MARCUS
CHITLINS
4X4 TRACTOR (Kofie’One)
TOKS
MAGO

will be spinning alongside the Crew through the night with host/dj AZUL213.

REP YOUR CREW!!!!!!!

Enter at:
ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd
Echo Park, CA 90026

FMI:
Hit + Run Myspace
Hit + Run Website

9pm // FREE with HIT+RUN shirt, $10 without // 21+

Sunday 11.30.08: BLITZEN TRAPPER / THE PARSON RED HEADS @ the echo

Blitzen Trapper || Listen || Watch

Like their 2007 debut, Wild Mountain Nation, this latest disc by these semibearded indie rockers was recorded in a telegraph-building-turned-studio in their home base of Portland, Oregon. With the Willamette River nearby, Blitzen Trapper channeled their love of nature — as well as an apparent love for Pavement, Neil Young and various forgotten bands from Nuggets collections. The result is an engaging album full of rootsy beauty: gorgeous, wilderness-wandering ballads like “Stolen Shoes & a Rifle” offer all the benefits of a great pastoral folk-rock record, but Blitzen also toss in ragged guitars, cheap keyboards and mildly weird psych rock on jams such as “Fire and Fast Bullets.” Meanwhile, frontman Eric Earley spins vivid backwoods stories that would play well around a campfire: “Black River Killer” is a creepy vignette about a murderous cowboy, and on the title track, Earley imagines wandering into the forest, watching his flesh turn into fur, and communing with a pack of wolves. Throughout the album, Blitzen keep their songs highly tuneful, making Furr a breakthrough worthy of toasting with a microbrew, or several. – Rolling Stone

with:
The Parson Red Heads || Listen

7pm / $10 advance; $12 day of show / all ages

Sunday 11.30.08: PART TIME PUNKS with PROTECT ME & HARLEM @ echo

with:
Protect me
Harlem

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+